Description
Buckland, a parish in Herts, near Ermine Street and the sources of the Rib and Quin rivers, 3 miles N of Buntingford station on the G.E.R. It includes the village of Chipping, and has a post office under Buntingford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1629; population of the civil parish, 376; of the ecclesiastical, 483. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St. Albans; net value, £155 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and an embattled western tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
